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Cost-Plus

  • when the government agrees to pay a company whatever it cost to make an item plus a guaranteed percentasge of profit
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Bataan Death March

  • when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place in April of 1942 during World War II. Bataan is a province in the Philippines on the island of Luzon.
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Convoy System

  • A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support.
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Casablanca Conference

  • The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco that took place from January 14–24, 1943.
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D-Day

  • The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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Kamikaze

  • Suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks. During World War II, about 3,862 kamikaze pilots died, and about 19% of kamikaze attacks managed to hit a ship.
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Battle of the Bulge

  • The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II.
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V-E Day

  • The public holiday celebrated on May 8th, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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Harry S. Truman

  • Sworn in as the 33rd president after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sudden death, Harry S. Truman presided over the end of WWII and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
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Manhattan Project

  • A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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V-J Day

  • On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
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United Nations

  • An intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on October 24th, 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another conflict.
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Nuremberg Trials

  • A series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes.
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Yalta Conference

  • The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. The leaders agreed to require Germany’s unconditional surrender and to set up in the conquered nation four zones of occupation to be run by their three countries and France.
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Cold War

  • A state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
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The Potsdam Conference

  • The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17th to August 2nd of 1945.
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Satellite nations

  • The term satellite nation was first used to describe certain nations in the Cold War. These were nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union. The satellite nations of the Cold War were Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.
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Iron Curtain

  • The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. A term symbolizing the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas.
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Containment

  • Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism.
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Marshall Plan

  • An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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NATO

  • An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
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SEATO

  • In September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. The purpose of the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region.
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Red Scare

  • the promotion by a state or society of widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with perceived national or foreign communists infiltrating or subverting U.S. society or the federal government.
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McCarthyism

  • the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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Massive retaliation

  • Also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
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Brinkmanship

  • the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
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Covert operations

  • "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor."
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Central Intelligence Agency

  • To make a fully functional intelligence office, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 establishing the CIA. The National Security Act charged the CIA with coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence affecting national security.
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Sputnik

  • The Sputnik Crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety about the perceived technological ... the perception in the United States of a threat from the Soviet Union, a perception that had persisted since the Cold War began after World War II.
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Sputnik

  • The Sputnik Crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety about the perceived technological ... the perception in the United States of a threat from the Soviet Union, a perception that had persisted since the Cold War began after World War II.
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military-industrial complex

  • The military–industrial complex is an informal alliance between a nation's military and the arms industry which supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
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G.I. Bill

  • The G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools.
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Fair Deal

  • The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953.
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Federal Highway act

  • The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
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Levittown

  • a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York. Levittown is halfway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale.
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Babyboom

  • Any period marked by a significant increase of birth rate. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds.
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Jonas Salk

  • An American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
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Juvenile delinquency

  • the habitual committing of criminal acts or offenses by a young person, especially one below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible.
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missile gap

  • The missile gap was the Cold War term used in the US for the perceived superiority of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in comparison with its own.
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New frontier

  • The term New Frontier was used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him.
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flexible response

  • A defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of massive retaliation.
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Peace Corps

  • The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries.
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Space race

  • The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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Berlin Wall

  • a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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War on poverty

  • the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964
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Great society

  • a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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Medicare

  • A single-payer, national social insurance program administered by the US federal government since 1976, currently using about 30–50 private insurance companies across the United States under contract for administration.
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Medicade

  • a health care program that assists low-income families or individuals in paying for long-term medical and custodial care costs.
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De facto segregation

  • Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement. For example, often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black, or segregated in fact ( de facto ), although not by law ( de jure ).
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Sit-ins

  • The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Brown vs. BOE

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Brown vs. BOE

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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SNCC

  • One of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960.
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Freedom riders

  • a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals
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Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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Black Power

  • a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent. It is used by African Americans in the United States.
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Malcolm X

  • Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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Black Panther Party

  • African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality

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